The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

 1 ^aWhat ^badvantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of ^ccircumcision?

 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the ^aoracles of God.

 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their ^aunbelief make the faith of God without effect?

 4 ^aGod forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a ^bliar; as it is written, That thou mightest be ^cjustified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

 5 ^aBut if our unrighteousness ^bcommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God ^cunrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

 6 ^aGod forbid: for then how shall God ^bjudge the world?

 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded ^athrough my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose ^adamnation is just.

 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

 10 As it is written, There is ^anone ^brighteous, no, not one:

 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

 12 They are all gone out of the ^away, they are together become ^bunprofitable; there is none that doeth ^cgood, no, not one.

 13 Their ^athroat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the ^bpoison of asps is under their lips:

 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and ^abitterness:

 15 Their feet are swift to ^ashed blood:

 16 Destruction and ^amisery are in their ways:

 17 And the way of ^apeace have they not known:

 18 There is no ^afear of God before their eyes.

 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every ^amouth may be stopped, and all the world may become ^bguilty before God.

 20 Therefore by the ^adeeds of the ^blaw there shall no flesh be ^cjustified in his sight: for ^dby the law is the knowledge of sin.

 21 But now the ^arighteousness of God ^bwithout the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

 23 For all have ^asinned, and come short of the glory of God;

 24 ^aBeing ^bjustified freely by his ^cgrace through the ^dredemption that is in Christ Jesus:

 25 Whom God hath ^aset forth to be a ^bpropitiation through faith in his ^cblood, to declare his righteousness for the ^dremission of sins that are past, through the ^eforbearance of God;

 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be ^ajust, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

 27 Where is ^aboasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is ^ajustified by ^bfaith ^cwithout the deeds of the law.

 29 Is he the ^aGod of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the ^bGentiles also:

 30 Seeing it is ^aone God, which shall justify the ^bcircumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? ^aGod forbid: ^byea, we establish the law.